Remove Useful Program

Useful Program is a potentially unwanted program, meaning a software that even though is malicious it won’t be detected as a virus by antivirus software; and it’s called “potentially unwanted” because it usually arrives at our computers without our knowledge.

Funny though, there’s nothing actually useful about Useful Program, specially since it overwhelms us with tons of ads while we browse the net. It will go as far as it has to in order to achieve its goal of showing those ads, for example it will modify on real time the source code of every website you visit to add its publicity, specially e-commerce websites such as Amazon. These ads can be seen in pop-ups, banners, and green or blue links among the text of your websites. The ads are usually seen with the title Ads by Useful Program, or Powered by Useful Program.

Useful Program also works as a spy, checking your system’s config and saving every data about it, the goal is to build a huge database with information like this that can be sold afterwards.

To avoid falling in this kind of annoying issue in the future, verify everything you install on your system. Always check what the default install is hiding before going for the “Next” button.

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How to remove Useful Program ?

Remove Useful Program with AdwCleaner

AdwCleaner is a program that research for and removes Adware, Toolbars, Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP), and browser Hijackers from your computer. If you use AdwCleaner you can simply delete many of these types of programs for a much better user experience on your pc and while browsing websites.

• Download AdwCleaner (Official link and direct-download) :
  Download AdwCleaner
• Select AdwCleaner.exe with right mouse click and Run as Administrator.
• If User Account Control asks you to allow AdwCleaner.exe to make changes to your computer, press Yes to continue.
• Start scanning your computer for any malicious threats by selecting the Scan button, please wait.
• If AdwCleaner is done, it will display a list of malicious items detected, If you have nothing to uncheck, continue to the removal process and select the Clean button.
• Reboot your computer.

Remove Useful Program with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a light-weight anti-malware program that is excellent at removing the latest detections.

• Download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to your desktop.
  Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection)
• Install MalwareBytes Anti-Malware using the installation wizard.
• Once installed, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will automatically start and you will see a message stating that you should update the program, and that a scan has never been run on your system. To start a system scan you can click on the Fix Now button.
• If an update is found, you will be prompted to download and install the latest version.
• Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for Useful Program.
• When the scan is complete, make sure that everything is set to Quarantine, and click Apply Actions.
• When removing the files, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware may require a reboot in order to remove some of them. If it displays a message stating that it needs to reboot your computer, please allow it to do so.

Remove Useful Program with HitmanPro

HitmanPro is a second opinion scanner designed to rescue computers that have become infected with viruses, spyware, Trojans, rootkits and other malware, despite continuous protection from up-to-date antivirus software.

• You can download HitmanPro from the below link:
  Download HitmanPro
• Double-click on the file named HitmanPro.exe (for 32-bit versions of Windows) or HitmanPro_x64.exe (for 64-bit versions of Windows).
• Click on the Next button, to install HitmanPro on your computer.
• HitmanPro will now begin to scan your computer for Useful Program malicious files.
• When it has finished it will display a list of all the malware that the program found as shown in the image below. Click on the Next button, to remove Useful Program virus.

Reset your browser (if necessary)

If you still see traces of Useful Program after following all the steps above you can reset your browser performing this operation:

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Internet Explorer